Chapter 621: Capture the Palace
Eridogan was really powerful, although he didn't know the details of Ulam's layout before and after, and even at this time he didn't receive the latest fleet battle report from Josel, but he relied on his intuitive guess to quickly point out the key position that Ulam was going to attack on this trip. I have to say that sometimes on the battlefield, a famous general can directly destroy the strategic target that the opponent has tried so hard to hide, just relying on his beast-like intuition that he has exercised by himself.
It's just that at this time, when Elidoan was hurrying to the army headquarters, Ulam had already launched an attack, as a new generation of generals of the Great Food, the risk of adventuring was almost the most common problem of newcomers, but it was precisely because of his predisciplinarity that he did not give the Great Qin Army time to react, to be precise, he did not give Elidoan time to react. On the last day of April of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, the Great Eclipse Army, which had been constantly retreating and shrinking its defensive line for half a month, suddenly rushed out of all kinds of strongholds and bunkers that it had worked so hard to build as if it had changed people, and completely disrupted the Great Qin army that was already on the way to attack. And in the midst of the battle, these Great Eclipse armies almost while fighting attracted more Great Qin soldiers to scatter throughout the city, stretching the distance between the entire battlefield and the rear as much as possible. In order to cover the attack momentum of the infantry musket team, Ulam repeated his old trick and let the light cavalry launch a surprise attack in the city, this short-distance sneak attack played a huge role in the beginning, disrupting all the front-line soldiers of the Great Qin army's independent counterattack, forcing the first-line attack troops to be dragged to other places according to the route planned by Ulam in advance, and gradually exposing the opponent's headquarters palace in front of Ulam.
"Tell all the brothers who went to war. The true God is watching us, and it is time for us to prove ourselves to the true God with our courage and blood. After Ullam's fanatical roar, the 40,000 troops behind him rushed out under the command of their respective generals, taking advantage of this rare short moment to burst into the battlefield. In pursuit of speed, Ulam did not even wait for the snow to be ready, and hurriedly urged the infantry to attack. Although this move allowed him to always take the lead, it did not give Alidoan a chance to fight back. But after their own artillery fired, even many people were scattered and killed directly by the shells rolling in the rear.
Ullam's early attack made it impossible for Eridogan to say what he envisioned, and he didn't even need to say anything more about reality. The big cannibal was well prepared this time, and the time for the attack was really good, in the glorious palace, so many army generals couldn't find a strong force to rush to the aid of the Chinese army in a short period of time, and almost all the troops were pinned down by the other party, and they couldn't get out in a short time. Speaking of which, these days, not only the Great Cannibals have fought very hard, but they have been crushed by the other party and retreated step by step, as the attacking side, the Great Qin people are even more overwhelmed, and many of their army have been completely chaotic, and the soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers. As a high-level general, he instead assigned all the chaotic soldiers to the generals he sent according to the nearest region, and in order to save trouble, he even directly used this kind of region or number to represent these troops. So in the beginning, as high-ranking generals, these people didn't even know how many troops they had in their hands that could be combat. And this situation even made the anxious Eridogan fall to the ground, when will this damn army be able to grow? Isn't this confusion about giving the royal city of Byzantium to the other side in vain? This moment even made Eridoan brush his sleeves away, unwilling to care about the plans of this stupid army army anymore.
"The generals immediately dispatched their own escort regiments to form a rescue corps to rush to the front of the palace." In the end, Eridogan still failed to be ruthless, and under the prayer of the supreme general of the army, Eridogan could only reluctantly express his opinion: "Everyone here must immediately go to the front line, go and bring all their troops out, and then rush to the front hall, and be sure to block the big cannibals." ”
"Our convoy? This is impossible, and without their guards, we ourselves are in danger. Dodel tried to say something but was directly cut off by Elidoan, "Dordle, do you think that relying on the Guardians alone will help you escape if Byzantium falls?" Go and see how many cavalry are still on the periphery of the Great Eclipse, and they're just waiting for you to lead your army to escape, so that these damned cavalrymen can shoot you all like rabbits. Eridogan's merciless words made all the army generals not know what to say. As he said, from the beginning of the Great Cannibal to the present, except for the beginning, most of the time the cavalry has been a bystander in this street battle, and even if it was just like that, the Great Cannibal cavalry retreated quickly after achieving some results. In terms of how to use cavalry, the Great Cannibals were much more clever than the Great Qin people. Therefore, Dodel did not doubt Eridoan's words at all, once he led people to try to escape, then these cavalry would definitely take advantage of their speed advantage to shoot all of them into hedgehogs one by one, even if there were more knights of the escort regiment, it would be useless.
After Didle said this, he completely calmed down, and after Dorder sent away almost all the generals under his command, he looked at the surrounding hall buildings and nodded: "Marshal Dordell, I think we should still give up using the royal palace as a headquarters, but turn this place into a bait to attract the Great Eclipse army to invest the maximum number of troops here, and then we will completely surround them from the outside." For the next evolution of the battle situation, Eridoan is not too worried, in his opinion, how can he fight with 200,000 troops to thwart the momentum of the Great Cannibal's attack, and if he follows his plan, this eye-catching palace is the best bait, the best place to defeat the Great Cannibal in one fell swoop.
Dodell was also very interested in Elidoan's suggestion, and almost all the generals of the Great Qin Army were not very good at this kind of tactical planning, so when Elidoan said his plan, Dodell was very satisfied, and with the existence of the other party, he only needed to give orders. Therefore, when he and Eridoan were discussing how to mobilize the troops, the battle in the front hall of the palace had also entered the white heat, with more than 40,000 people, plus the Great Food Army that had been arranged at this point in the early stage, Ulam had invested nearly 50,000 troops in the first attack, and it was very concentrated on one point, and almost in an instant, the Great Qin Army that counterattacked in dozens of trenches in front of the palace headquarters was completely submerged. 50,000 people rushed up like a tide, such a huge number made the defensive phalanx composed of the guards of the Great Qin Chinese Army, which was originally only more than 10,000 people, crumbling, and the opponent was numerous, and immediately threw troops into other directions to attack after being defeated in one place. And almost at the same time as this huge crowd of people rushed forward, the rumbling cannon also began to sound rapidly, and the Great Qin Army, which was accustomed to the artillery support of its rear these days, once again felt the death threat of this violent weapon. The tight approach began to disarray after a few shells fell into the explosion, and after several explosive packets were thrown by the daredevils organized by the Great Food Army, this outdated army tactic was completely defeated. The disorganized phalanx soldiers were targeted for slaughter by the Great Food Army. That kind of long weapon and heavy weapon can't be used at all in every square inch. In addition to the sporadic musketeers, the Great Food Army was more engaged in light infantry. Speed comes first in street fighting, and infantry has speed to gain an advantage in a small area. What's more, the constant sound of artillery behind him and the constantly blown up Great Qin army formation in front of him also gave these light infantry the best space to display. The long knife shield stepped forward to harvest life with ease, and its speed was even much faster than the bayonets and bullets of the musketeers.
After the collapse of Great Qin's Chinese escort phalanx, they could no longer stop the reunited Great Food Army, and the outer positions of the front hall were also scattered. At this time, the escort regiment of those high-ranking generals who rushed over to form the second line of defense did not play the role imagined. These heavily armored knights wrapped in cold plate armor did indeed block the momentum of the Great Eclipse Army's charge at the beginning. The steel-clad body is not something that light infantry can stop. Although there were not many of them, it was not for nothing that Dodel considered them his own convoy. These people are basically all composed of the best warriors selected from the knights from all over the world, equipped with the most sophisticated iron armor and weapons, and even the war horses are the best war horses drawn from Taixi, otherwise they would not be able to bear such a heavy weight.
However, after the defeat and retreat, the musket teams in their respective units quickly assembled, and then held breech guns to fire at these tall heavy cavalry, and at the same time urgently summoned the artillery behind them to attack. In terms of dealing with heavy armor, this method of the Great Cannibal is to use new weapons to the extreme. The mini bullets used in breech guns are not very penetrating. However, the quality of the plate armor used by the heavy armor soldiers of the Great Qin at this time was not good, and many times the Mini bullets could still penetrate these armors, and the experienced musketeers would try to aim at the areas that were not covered by the armor when shooting, and then kill the heavy armor soldiers in a short time by shooting with concentrated fire.
Although the Great Eclipse Army also paid a huge price for this method, the other party's heavy armored soldiers fell to the ground one after another, making their eyes light up, and the number of these heavy armored soldiers was not large, so soon the confidence of the Great Eclipse soldiers was high here. Some of the troops continued to fight around these heavy armoured soldiers to gain a chance for the musketeers and artillery behind, while more soldiers began to attack the palace through the gaps in these convoys.
This quickly disrupted Elidoan's deployment, what he didn't expect was that when he wanted to use the palace as bait to attract the main attack of the Great Food Army, the other party had already hit his doorstep. All of Elidoan's plans are useless, and they themselves are in danger of having their central nervous system destroyed by the other side.
"Damn it, why didn't the knights of the Guardian Regiments kill all these infidels?" Dodder was completely angry at this time, and his mouth began to curse the convoy incessantly. However, after Elidoan sighed, he directly gave the order in place of Dodel, and asked the heralds next to him to immediately go to the front line departments to give orders, regardless of the enemy in front of him, and to attack near the central headquarters with all his might. Eridoan is going to fight against Ulam, and plans to concentrate all his main forces to completely hang the opponent's elite in front of him when the other party attacks his own headquarters.
"General Elidogan, immediately order your naval warships to cover the army's retreat to the north." Eridogan was going to fight to the death, but Dodell obviously didn't have the courage to do so, and instead offered to let the navy cover his retreat as soon as he calmed down. This move made Elidogan furious. But before the two of them could quarrel, the roar of the big cannibals outside was getting closer and closer. In other words, at this time, whether Elidoan wants it or not, the balance of war is no longer on his side.
"You're playing with the fate of the Empire." Eridoan flicked his cloak behind him and turned away with his own guards, ignoring the stupid and unpowerful army pails. It's no wonder that Elidogan is so angry, Daqin, who has superior forces, faces the counterattack of an inferior opponent in his own royal city. Nearly two hours have passed since the beginning, and none of the troops that have been pinned down have been able to rush to the front hall of the royal city in time to undertake the garrison task for the Chinese army headquarters. And what the Supreme Commander thought of after the enemy soldiers pressed the territory was actually to let himself take the naval warships to cover their retreat. Don't they know how important Byzantium's position was?
With the departure of Elidoan, the last chance of the Great Qin Front that had the ability to turn the tide of the battle was also lost. Ulam's method of recklessness and sacrifice finally completely dispersed the Great Qin army, and after Doder led a small number of troops to retreat, the entire large array completely collapsed, and countless soldiers began to flee desperately towards the rear of the Ethrace region. And the Great Eclipse Cavalry, who participated in the pursuit at the right time, also made everyone fall into the ice cellar. This difficult battle finally gave the Great Cannibal a glimmer of hope at this point. But what they may not have known was that at the same time that Ullam led his troops through Byzantium in pursuit of the rear. On the Iberian Peninsula, the Great Qin army also began to cross the strait and appear on the land of African. And it seems that the two countries have negotiated it. One began the pursuit on the Eastern Front, and the other attacked from the Western Front. It's just that in the eyes of onlookers, whether it is the newly defeated Great Qin or the Great Cannibal who has just won and made Elidoan retreat, it is almost to the end.